# Error indexing in elasticsearch due to indexing failure, id: 9, error: Limit of total fields \[1000\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-indexing-in-elasticsearch-due-to-indexing-failure-id-9-error-limit-of-total-fields-1000/106570>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-indexing-in-elasticsearch-due-to-indexing-failure-id-9-error-limit-of-total-fields-1000/106570 "2017-11-06T17:48:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![hugomarcelino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugomarcelino/32/23867_2.png) [@hugomarcelino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hugomarcelino)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-indexing-in-elasticsearch-due-to-indexing-failure-id-9-error-limit-of-total-fields-1000/106570/1 "2017-11-06T17:48:55Z")

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Hi,

So I've started having the following error in elasticsearch. "Elasticsearch indexing failure, id: 9, error: Limit of total fields [1000] in index [metrics-2017.11.06] has been exceeded".

My first approach was to have a look at the index and see what kind of fields were there using the "\_mapping" and Kibana for easier visualization.

But what I found is that I'm not near to 1000 fields. Using Kibana, the total number of fields in this index is 505 fields. Am I missing something?

Elasticsearch version is 5.5.2.

Thanks for your help,

Hugo Marcelino

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-indexing-in-elasticsearch-due-to-indexing-failure-id-9-error-limit-of-total-fields-1000/106570/2 "2017-11-07T05:13:46Z")

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Where are you seeing the error?

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**Author:** ![hugomarcelino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugomarcelino/32/23867_2.png) [@hugomarcelino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hugomarcelino)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-indexing-in-elasticsearch-due-to-indexing-failure-id-9-error-limit-of-total-fields-1000/106570/3 "2017-11-07T10:18:34Z")

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Hi Mark,

I was seeing that in Kibana \> Management \> Index Patterns.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-indexing-in-elasticsearch-due-to-indexing-failure-id-9-error-limit-of-total-fields-1000/106570/4 "2017-12-05T10:18:40Z")

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